Procedural environment of public engagement: an induced recall experiment of local government employees
通过实验研究地方政府雇员对公众参与的回忆如何受程序环境影响，并影响其未来参与意愿，发现程序环境调节了回忆对意愿的作用。
This research (1) examines how employees’ recollections of public engagement are associated with their willingness for future engagement (WFE), (2) assesses whether employees’ discrete recollections are driven by their procedural environments, and (3) tests whether employees’ recollections interact with their perceptions of red tape in affecting WFE. We find that one’s procedural environment parameterizes the effect of episodic recall on a subject’s WFE. Qualitative evidence reveals the prominence of one’s procedural environment across groups, but in terms of helping the public navigate administrative burdens in the positive treatment group and rules that hinder the employees in the negative treatment group.